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Half-Life 2 Preloads Steam Ahead

[Aug 26, 2004, 11:13 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

Steam News has word that preloading of Half-Life 2 to Steam clients is beginning:

Half-Life 2 pre-loading begins to Steam account holders today. Over the coming days, those who have selected the pre-loading option will have encrypted Half-Life 2 files delivered to their PC. No purchase is required to pre-load HL2, but is required to activate the game. Purchase options will be released soon. Then, the moment the game is made available, those who have pre-loaded and purchased Half-Life 2 via Steam will be authenticated and ready to start playing.

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Re: $TEAM !!!!!!!!!!

Aug 27, 2004, 02:21

cecilkorik

Wow, you apparently don't understand what has just been said. 1: You have to get online to play games online. Apparently you don't understand what he just said either. He didn't say play online, he said play multiplayer. ie, LAN games. I don't know if his accusation is true or not, that you have to be online, but if so, that's upsetting. Hooking up a small LAN with no Internet access isn't that uncommon, whether it be a LAN party or what. That's one of the only ways we can play after-hours at work, for example, as playing while connected to the corporate (internet connected) network is flat-out unacceptable to the IT guys. So yeah, there are situations where that would suck. [Edit: Nevermind, the link in your earlier post made it clear that he is either wrong, or didn't read your link This comment was edited on Aug 27, 02:24.

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Comment [quote="cecilkorik"Aug 27, 2004, 02:21]q[Wow, you apparently don't understand what has just been said. 1: You have to get online to play games online.]q Apparently you don't understand what he just said either. He didn't say play online, he said play multiplayer. ie, LAN games. I don't know if his accusation is true or not, that you have to be online, but if so, that's upsetting. Hooking up a small LAN with no Internet access isn't that uncommon, whether it be a LAN party or what. That's one of the only ways we can play after-hours at work, for example, as playing while connected to the corporate (internet connected) network is flat-out unacceptable to the IT guys. So yeah, there are situations where that would suck. [Edit: Nevermind, the link in your earlier post made it clear that he is either wrong, or didn't read your link [/quote]

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